To Want To Kill This Cock.

[JemimaMuddleFuck]

Over the road have added a Cockerall to their menagerie. They're not farmers, think Tom and Barbara from the Good Life; but stinking rich; and no idea/sense.

4.15am every bloody morning since he arrived (last week) he starts crowing. It's not even Dawn. It's pitch bloody black.

Currently briefing lazy sodding cat who sleeps all day my killing machine.

Environmental Health will be your friend.

Do you live in a built up residential area? If so, it can be classed as a noise nuisance and removed.

No rural Secret, but it's in a garden in the middle of a village.

I'll try Environmental Health if the cat can't be persuaded to perform. Thanks

Someone close to us had a cockerall last year - first we knew about it was in the middle of the summer about 4am as the windows were open! You do get used to it just like anyother 'night noise'.

In fact, over the last few weeks it is nice to know the mornings are getting lighter as it is up and about earlier and earlier!

Do you complain about church bells and tractors leaving mud on the road too?

haha Callisto - your comment made me think about those people who buy a house near an airport and then complain about the noise!

Have you gone over and talked to them about it? If It's waking you up it'll probably be waking them up too. They may be working up to either re-homing it or slaughtering it.

A friend of mine got a load of chicks, thinking they were all girls, one turned out to be a cock. It took her a good while to work up to taking it to be slaughtered and even longer still with him in the deep freeze before she could consider eating him.

Callisto, have you ever lived with, or very close to a cockerel?

Fucking annoying bastards at silly o'clock in the middle of the night!

Yes, in fact I have one in my garden as well as some hens. I rather like cockerels and have no problem with the noise - there are several in my village and it is nice to hear them all first thing. I also live right next door to the church and put up with the noise from that without complaint, as well as the pesky tractors, loud mooing cattle and baaing sheep. In the summer there is a steam rally in the field behind my house and I put up with the noise from the funfair and steam engines. It is all about life in a village community and getting on with ones neighbours, whether they are rich or poor.

I'm country born and bred (farmer's daughter).
Have lived in the country all my life, so I don't complain about any "normal" farming activity.

The Church is 5 houses away. They bell ring 3/4 times a week and I love it.

The chickens/cockerall are as far away from their house as is possible; and it's a 2/3 acre garden. It's the latest in a long list of animals that have been acquired and then disappear.
I'm up and dressed at 5am every morning; but that extra 3/4 of an hour early is making me very grummpy.

You live in a rural area. What the feck do you expect to hear? Maria Callas?

Sorry, rural things happen in a rural area. Silence is an option only available to those who live on an otherwise deserted island and even then, please don't complain when the foxes scream.

PMSL with Callisto. A woman on another forum I use lives on th very outskirts of a small cathedral city which is surrounded by countryside. Her complaints about local noises were met by a response from a good friend of mine who is also on the forum, the quietest, least confronational woman imaginable.

"You're complaining that cows moo, Yvonne?"

I could recommend that you moved out of a rural area and into the city Jemima but you'd be complaining about cars and trains there.

Cockerals are "normal farming activity"!

Or they were last time I looked, unless you want the poor birds all locked up in battery cages?

It's probably doing their heads in too. I'm surprised hes so loud though. My boy starts up about 4.30 and even though hes actually not that far from the bedroom window because hes shut away you can only hear him if you're awake and listening. It wouldn't wake you until you sleep incredibly lightly in which case the dawn chorus would get you anyway

YANBU to whinge about the cockerel crowing.

YABU to expect to be able to do anything about it.

Sympathies though, we used to have peacocks who roamed the village and they liked to scream around 4am, drove me crazy.

I know what to expect Vallhala. I don't want silence.

What I want is neighbours that aren't so bloody selfish.
They sought and obtained planning permission for a chicken coup that looked like something out of Disney; which was built adjacent to their property.
The cockerall and chickens have now been evicted from the Palace and as far away from them as is possible.Unfortunately it's about 20 feet from my bedroom window.

If they couldn't put up with it, then it's unreasonable to expect me to.

I'm no chicken/cockerall expert Valhella but Dh (who also kept chickens/cockeralls and is farming stock); says that they are not "normal" farm stock. They are "fancies"/a weird mix of foreign birds.

The cockerall is of a size and stature that I have never seen on a farm. It's massive.

Just go and buy it from them.

See how they like it, being woken up by it crowing all the bloody time in YOUR garden.

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YABU move to a city where you might be woken by sirens or night clubs letting out

a cock crowing in a country village is perfectly normal and far nicer sounding that living in a big city, quit yer wining woman!

Perhaps you could frighten him to death with your wedding presents?

You must go and speak to your neighbours and ask if they will move the hen shed or ask if the cockerel can be put in a place of his own well away from your window and in in a darker hut.

To be honest, I would worry about rats becoming attracted to the hen shed and it sounds quite close to your property.

YANBU

Have a word & ask them to move it away to another part of their land YANBU & depending on how you put it to them they probably won't mind.

BalloonSlayer; I wouldn't be able to get it that close to their bedroom window, my garden isn't as big as theirs. They didn't like it though, because chickens and the cock were evicted from Chez Disney.

This is the same couple who put three Shetlands on the same land (no grass/grazing; all under pine trees), that the chickens/cock now occupy.
It's about a 1/4 acre of paddock covered in pine needles. They thinned the pines but left the stumps proud.
She bought the ponies at a fete
Glad I wasn't home when one of the poor things was humanely destroyed with a broken leg and the carcass carried off to the hunt.
Loads of people told them that ponies need grazing/handling/how dangerous the trees were etc.etc.
Then they all just disappeared one day.

Yadnbu about this particular cock. Yabu if you expect the owners to do anything about for you. Your only solace is , I think , that they might get heartily sick of it themselves before long.
You could ask RSPCA to have a look but I wouldn't hold out much hope in that direction.

Hope instead that the local fox population has been attracted by the noise .....

I hold no hope of the neighbours doing anything dwpanxt. There's a lot of history, not just involving their animals; but also their children.

As a result they have completely cut themselves off from the village.

So this isn't just about The Giant Cock Of Annoyance, then. It's about the fact that they're playing at Country Life and being cruel and thoughtless in the process.

It's a cockerel!